Notable Historical Events - 1644
1644 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 18 |
Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting |
Jan 24 |
Parliamentary army wins battle of Nantwich, Cheshire, English Civil War |
Feb 5 |
1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut |
Mar 7 |
Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies |
Mar 14 |
England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) |
Mar 19 |
200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor |
Mar 31 |
Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara |
Apr 29 |
Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China & flees Peking |
May 6 |
Johan Mauritius resigns as governor of Brazil |
May 23 |
Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists |
May 28 |
Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English Civil War) |
Jun 11 |
Florentine scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci |
Jul 2 |
Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert |
Sep 2 |
, Cornwall: Robert Devereux's infantry surrenders |
Sep 5 |
Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sas of Gent |
Sep 15 |
Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X |
Sep 17 |
French troops occupy Mainz |
Oct 23 |
Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen |
Oct 27 |
Second Battle of Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies |
Nov 19 |
First protestant ministry society in New England |
Nov 23 |
Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, written by John Milton is published. |
Dec 4 |
1st European peace congress opens in Munster |
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